On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 09:50:12PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> wnpp-check currently seems to download the list of WNPP bugs on every
> invocation, even if they follow very close to each other. This can be
> annoying if you're just behind a thin/bad internet
> connection. E.g. currently for me every invocation takes around 30
> seconds due to just having a (not so good) EDGE connection.

Understandable.

> According to its man-page, wnpp-alerts seems to already cache the
> downloaded list of bugs.

It caches the set of installed packages which were flagged by wnpp-alert
so that one can later do a diff of which of their packages have wnpp
related bugs.  However, it only does this when the diff option is used.

> Can't wnpp-check use the same cache and maybe
> even the same code to use it?

Changing both to cache the actual page(s) seems like a good idea.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]>

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